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The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity
Baran, Cavit; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan - 2023
This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to … estimate selection-corrected place effects on education for children of Black migrants. On average, Black children gained 0 … children during the 1940s offer relatively poor opportunities for Black youth today. Opportunities for Black children were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255535
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Improving Reading Skills by Encouraging Children to Read : A Randomized Evaluation of the Sa Aklat Sisikat Reading Program in the Philippines
Abeberese, Ama Baafra - 2011
We evaluate a program that aims to improve children's reading skills by providing classes with age-appropriate reading … material and incentivizing children to read through a 31 day read-a-thon. During the read-a-thon, the program significantly … increases the propensity of children to read, causing 20 percent more children to have read a book in the last week at school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122967
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For Better or Worse? The Effects of Physical Education on Child Development
Knaus, Michael - 2018
This study analyses the effects of regular physical education at school on cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills, motor skills, physical activity, and health. It is based on a very informative data set, the German Motorik-Modul, and identifies the effect by using variation in the required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929094
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Government Education Expenditures, Pre-Primary Education and School Performance : A Cross-Country Analysis
Del Boca, Daniela - 2018
Using data from OECD's PISA, Eurostat and World Bank's WDI, we explore how child cognitive outcomes at the aggregate country level are related to macroeconomic conditions, specifically government education expenditures and early education experience. We find that both government expenditures in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925495
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The Impact of 'Equal Educational Opportunity' Funds : A Regression Discontinuity Design
Ooghe, Erwin - 2011
Many countries provide extra resources to schools serving disadvantaged pupils. We exploit a discontinuity in the assignment of such personnel subsidies in Flanders to estimate the impact on cognitive outcomes via a regression discontinuity (RD) design. Because bias can be substantial in RD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125478
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Fundamental Determinants of School Efficiency and Equity : German States as a Microcosm for OECD Countries
Woessmann, Ludger - 2007
Cross-country evidence on student achievement might be hampered by omitted country characteristics such as language or legal differences. This paper uses cross-state variation in Germany, whose sixteen states share the same language and legal system, but pursue different education policies. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776982
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Some Children Left Behind : Variation in the Effects of an Educational Intervention
Buhl-Wiggers, Julie - 2020
We document substantial variation in the effects of a highly-effective literacy program in northern Uganda. The program increases test scores by 1.4 SDs on average, but standard statistical bounds show that the impact standard deviation exceeds 1.0 SD. This implies that the variation in effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825592
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Community College Pathways for Disadvantaged Students
Holzer, Harry J. - 2019
In this paper we estimate the impacts of the "pathways" chosen by community college students - in terms of desired credentials and fields of study, as well as other choices and outcomes along the paths - on the attainment of credentials with labor market value. We focus on the extent to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870162
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The Political Economy of Intergenerational Income Mobility
Ichino, Andrea - 2010
parental investment in children and endogenous redistributive institutions, we identify the structural parameters that govern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147548
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Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity
Schuetz, Gabriela; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how organizational features of the education system affect equality of educational opportunity. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318054